Alex Travesset
Associate Scientist, Materials Chemistry & Biomolecular Materials, Ames Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University
A503 Physics Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
phone 515.294.7191, email: trvsst@ameslab.gov
Education
| Ph.D. Physics (with Distinction), University of Barcelona, Spain | 1997 |
Professional Appointments
| Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Faculty, Iowa State University | 2003 - Present |
| Associate Scientist, Ames Laboratory | 2002 - Present |
| Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University | 2002 - Present |
| Research Associate, Condensed Matter Group, University of Illinois at Urbana, IL | 2000 - 2002 |
| Research Associate, Particle Physics Group, Syracuse University, NY | 1997 - 2000 |
Honors, Awards and Professional Activities
| Premi Extraordinary de Doctorat, given each year to the best Ph.D. dissertations at the University of Barcelona | 1977 |
Selected Publications
J. Anderson and A. Travesset, “Coarse-grained simulations of gels of nonionic multiblock copolymers with hydrophobic groups,” Macromolecules 39, 5143 (2006).
C. D. Lorenz and A. Travesset, “Atomistic simulations of langmuir monolayer collapse,” Langmuir 22, 10016 (2006).
W. Bu, D. Vaknin and A. Travesset, “How accurate is Poisson-Boltzmann theory for monovalent ions near highly charged interfaces,” Langmuir 22, 5673 (2006).
A. Travesset and D. Vaknin, “Bjerrum pairing correlations at charged interfaces,” Europhys. Lett. 74, 181 (2006).
J. Pitler, W. Bu, D. Vaknin, A. Travesset, D. J. McGillivray and M. Loesche, “Charge inversiona at minute electrolyte concentrations,”Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 46102 (2006).
A. Travesset, “Effect of dipolar moments in domain sizes of lipid bilayers and monolayers,” J. Chem. Phys. 125, 84905 (2006).
S. Chushak and A. Travesset, “Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of the self-assembly of pentablock copolymers into micelles”, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 234905 (2005).
D. Vaknin, S. Dahlke, A. Travesset, G. Nizri, S. Magdassi, “Induced crystallization of polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes at the gas-water interface,”Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 218302 (2004).
A. R. Bausch, M. Bowick, A. Cacciuto, A. Dinsmore, M. Hsu, D. Nelson, M. Nikolaides, A. Travesset and D. Weitz, “Grain boundary scars and spherical crystallography,” Science 299, 1716 (2003).
M. Bowick and A.Travesset, “The statistical mechanics of membranes,” Phys. Rep. 344, 25 (2001).
Materials Chemistry and
Biomolecular Materials Program
Ames Laboratory
Iowa State University
142 Spedding Hall
Ames, IA 50011 USA
Phone: 1.515.294.7568
FAX: 1.515.294.4709
